| VV. The difference between ND,BC, and other schools with high graduation rates. Is that the school thinks of itself more as a place of higher learning than just a football school. The student athlete at ND,BC and other top academic schools are watched more closely or by better trained intelligent people. Who when they see a problem they confront it by sitting the player down from participation in order to get the grades to an acceptable level. If they don't they are suspended from the team long before they even get close to what the NCAA would call an academic problem. ND athletes are not given grades just to be able to play. If any player at ND at any time was being given this special treatment , it would be all over the newspapers, sports outlets and propably even the Evening news. The thing you have to understand is that ND ,BC and the other top academic schools let the incoming athletes know before hand that academics is priority #1 if they want to remain elegible. At scUM,tOSU and SEC, and USC, others football is first andf hey if you get an education WOO HOO. |